Product Details

Vendor Details

Datadog

www.datadoghq.com/

Founded 2010

United States

About Datadog Cloud Monitoring

Datadog is the essential monitoring service for hybrid cloud environments. The platform assists organizations in improving agility, increasing efficiency and providing end-to-end visibility across dynamic or high-scale infrastructures. By collecting metrics and events from over 200 out of the box services and technologies, Datadog enables Dev and Ops teams to ensure application uptime and accelerate go-to-market efforts. Start monitoring with Datadog effortlessly in minutes.

Pros: Datadog provides a way of having a lot of information about your systems, clusters and infrastructure in only one site, being able to analyze valuable data for your company. It is possible to create alarms and notifications when overpassing some threshold or value, for example, when a service is down in your systems of when the CPU gets a high percentage of usage.

It integrates pretty well with tons of services and systems, such as Amazon Web Services, Apache, Nginx, several databases, and a long etcetera. Also, it is possible to send notifications to apps like Slack or Hipchat.

Cons: Datadog is not very easy to use at the beginning and it needs a little bit of investigation but it is worth to learn it.

one of the best software for monitoring in the market

Jun 27, 2018

Jahiezer I.

Desarrollador

Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees

Used the software for: 2+ years

Reviewer Source

Source: GetApp

4/5

Overall

3
/
5

Ease of Use

4
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5

Features & Functionality

5
/
5

Customer Support

4
/
5

Value for Money

Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely

Pros: This software allows to monitoring all you need and also can find lots of solutions for a high gama of cases. by using this app i be able to see the problems that me and my team have, so we can solve it by utilizing all the data that datadog provides. Works in differents OS and that make things more easy

Cons: The proces to instal and put in march this softwre can be a nightmare if you have not experience, it is really complicated. Though the software have nice tools, the price is not the best in the market, is posible to find something good for lowes price if you know what are you loking for. And finally haved some problem with some data transfer working with this app but i really dont konw what was the razon why

Powerful tool for the analysis and monitoring of applications

May 20, 2019

Neyda Jose M.

Software Developer

Computer Software, 51-200 employees

Used the software for: 6-12 months

Reviewer Source

Source: GetApp

4/5

Overall

4
/
5

Ease of Use

4
/
5

Features & Functionality

4
/
5

Customer Support

4
/
5

Value for Money

Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely

Comments: Datadog is a very useful tool because it is known if the applications, servers or hots are working as they should or if not, we will be aware to prevent further damage solving the problem in the shortest time possible.

Pros: This tool called Datadog I love mainly because it is really efficient and very useful because it allows through it you can carry out a monitoring of the performance of applications in a very simple way, being this through the reading of metrics that are really simple to understand and issue very detailed information that is useful to diagnose the cause and thus be able to solve the problem in the shortest time possible, also is available 24/7 so in case of any fault send immediately a mail informing the same and the best thing is that it has a clean interface, intuitive and easy to use without having technical knowledge to manage it.

Cons: One of its drawbacks is that when it is integrated with a large number of tools it can become heavy, which causes the information to be slowed down.

Great server monitoring

Feb 23, 2019

Diego M.

VP Engineering

Investment Management, 11-50 employees

Used the software for: 2+ years

Reviewer Source

Source: Capterra

5/5

Overall

5
/
5

Ease of Use

5
/
5

Features & Functionality

5
/
5

Customer Support

5
/
5

Value for Money

Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely

Pros: The metrics navigator, you start by picking a metric or server, and it then tells you all the information it is collecting from it, so you can start designing your monitoring dashboards and see the data that will appear as you go

Cons: There are times where a chart would omit certain spikes, due to the way they aggregate values. But a quick email to support and they'll give you the settings you need to adjust not to miss such events, even when you look at a chart for the month

Overall: They monitor everything we run at our company and we recently moved logging to them too. Very happy with support, had to ask them several questions over the years and they always know what I'm looking for.

Monitor full stack app performance with Datadog

May 11, 2019

Verified Reviewer

Computer Software, 201-500 employees

Used the software for: 1-2 years

Reviewer Source

Source: Capterra

5/5

Overall

5
/
5

Ease of Use

4
/
5

Features & Functionality

4
/
5

Customer Support

4
/
5

Value for Money

Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely

Pros: For our AWS deployment, we use Datadog for application performance and server monitoring as well as synthetic HTTP tests . DataDog enables real-time information and measuring engineering-specific metrics and allows you to control how you trace and diagnose data. If you are looking to track the time it takes for a web hook to fire after an asynchronous request has been made, you can store the time the request has been sent in your database and when the webhook fires for that request, measure the delta and send it to DataDog. DataDog integrates with Slack, which allows for alerts on average and max thresholds.

Cons: Datadog has a mature product but features are limited, the tool feels dated and the UI is very plain.

Great metrics and monitoring

Mar 08, 2019

Kevin V.

Software Architect

Internet, 11-50 employees

Used the software for: 2+ years

Reviewer Source

Source: GetApp

4/5

Overall

3
/
5

Ease of Use

5
/
5

Features & Functionality

4
/
5

Customer Support

5
/
5

Value for Money

Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely

Comments: Overall Datadog has given us great insight into what is going on with our server infrastructure, it has opened our eyes to some issues we weren't aware of. On top of that it's helped send alerts when things are going wrong.

Pros: Datadog has integrations with pretty much every main software service you can think of. It has pretty robust support for Windows machines and the custom metrics support is great, so you can track anything you'd like.

Cons: The usability could be improved in some areas, the custom dashboard features are powerful but the syntax can be hard to work with.

Many integration options and plethora of dashboards and visualizations

Apr 07, 2019

Verified Reviewer

Computer Software, 201-500 employees

Used the software for: 6-12 months

Reviewer Source

Source: Capterra

4/5

Overall

4
/
5

Ease of Use

4
/
5

Features & Functionality

Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely

Pros: Configuring monitoring tools is not always trivial, half of the battle is making sure metrics are flowing. Datadog is very flexible when it comes to sending metrics to their cloud. You can use collectD, statsd, file beats, or the 84523982 other options. Our orchestration software already had an option to enable Datadog collection. Once the data is in place, you need to figure out what metrics are relevant. Datadog has a number of pre-built dashboards tweaked for popular software systems. If you are using something homegrown, they can provide recommendations and optimizations after enough data has been ingested. API and documentation are top notch and we were able to build integrations quite easily.

Cons: Datadog is purely cloud-based system so there's no on-prem option, only SaaS. Depending on your company, this may be a deal-breaker since all of your metrics data is hosted in the cloud. Since it's a SaaS based service, it won't be easy to move data to another service. Occasionally web UI will bog down but it's fairly performant for the most part.

Overall: Dependable and reliable solution.

Great view of our server environment

Feb 08, 2017

Kevin V.

Software Architect

Accounting, 51-200 employees

Used the software for: 1-2 years

Source: Capterra

5/5

Overall

4
/
5

Ease of Use

5
/
5

Features & Functionality

5
/
5

Customer Support

3
/
5

Value for Money

Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely

Pros: Datadog's Windows support is great, the Windows agent supports detailed IIS and MSSQL statistics. Their RabbitMQ support is good as well - providing good insight into queues. Customizable dashboards are very handy as well.

Cons: The User interface generally is good but in some instances can be a bit too technical to use.

Overall: Datadog has great support for a variety of different third party systems - Windows machines, linux machines, AWS instances, pretty much anything you can imagine. You can easily slice and dice stats on a good looking dashboard. Provides a good one stop view of your environment.

Recommendations to other buyers: They have great customer support if you get stuck on something!

Best monitoring cloud service available in the market

Feb 16, 2018

Ravikiran R.

Architect

Used the software for: 2+ years

Reviewer Source

Source: Capterra

5/5

Overall

5
/
5

Ease of Use

5
/
5

Features & Functionality

5
/
5

Customer Support

5
/
5

Value for Money

Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely

Pros: Easy to monitor and get analytics

We can monitor inside any stack, any app, at any scale, anywhere

Supports multiple dashboards

Notebooks help you to share the data

Cons: More options some time confuses

Help documentation needs improvement

Some times dashboards are very complex to understand

Overall: Easy to monitor and easy to share with notebook feature

Watch the statistics from virtually anywhere

Datadog Cloud Monitoring Review

Oct 12, 2017

Vince P.

Director of IT

Used the software for: 1-2 years

Reviewer Source

Source: Capterra

4/5

Overall

4
/
5

Ease of Use

4
/
5

Features & Functionality

4
/
5

Customer Support

4
/
5

Value for Money

Pros: I noticed that this monitoring system is very flexible, you can track pretty much any metric, which is great.

Great integration with many services like AWS, Chef, Couchbase, JVM, HAProxy, MySQL etc.

Dashboard functionality is easy. Comes with UI, UI is simply designed but supports all the key functionalities that you would expect from a counter services, and to be able to create dashboard based on counters.

Cons: Noticed that the more data you have, the slower response Datadog service will become, when you query the service.

Query a specific counter, as well as when the counter contains high dimensional data, which is normal, we haven't yet tested what is the upper limit for how much data it can decently handle.

But we have been very satisfied using Datadog, and we feel that it should be enough for small to mid size company.

Datadog as Perfect monitoring tool.

Feb 09, 2018

Denis V.

MS SQL Server DBA

Used the software for: Less than 6 months

Reviewer Source

Source: Capterra

4/5

Overall

3
/
5

Ease of Use

4
/
5

Features & Functionality

5
/
5

Customer Support

4
/
5

Value for Money

Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely

Pros: Perfect monitoring tool.

You can monitor your infrastructure as on premise as in the cloud by monitoring performance counters of different applications and collecting information from logs.

You can monitor your infrastructure as in real time mode or just receiving alerts for example to email.

It allows you to use different ready solutions with predefined logic for to monitor even different software such as: SQL Server, MySQL and so on.

It can be integrated with different products such as slack, where you can receive different alerts and where slacks bot can perform setuped actions.

You can create different dashboards for your convenience.

Cons: No suitable for all cloud services, for example if you're going to monitor your infrastructure in Azure it would be better to use Azure's Log Analytics.

This solution is not for non-experienced users and required time to learn it . Features used in free price tiers very limited for example no alert capabilities.

Helpful monitoring tool

Dec 28, 2018

Jessica H.

L3/L3 Support Supervisor

Education Management, 501-1000 employees

Used the software for: 1-2 years

Reviewer Source

Source: Capterra

5/5

Overall

4
/
5

Ease of Use

5
/
5

Features & Functionality

Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely

Pros: Datadog is very helpful in reviewing the status of apps and servers for our system. It's easy to see how things are doing at a glance, reviewing when an issue started/ended, etc.

Cons: The software isn't intuitive to the newest user, unless they are familiar with with the setup and maintenance of cloud frameworks; but that's not important, as it's meant for those users in the first place. It's quick enough to learn for your own purposes if you're only there to see the current status at a glance.

Overall: I'm not a DevOps engineer by any means; just a member of a customer support organization. However, I use Datadog to quickly check in on reports of downtime or slow page loads from our customers, and can quickly gather the information I need to confirm those reports, to see if any issues are still occurring that need a quick resolution.

One of the default server monitor tools in my list.

May 16, 2018

Verified Reviewer

Used the software for: 1-2 years

Reviewer Source

Source: Capterra

5/5

Overall

4
/
5

Ease of Use

4
/
5

Features & Functionality

3
/
5

Customer Support

4
/
5

Value for Money

Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely

Pros: The best about datadog is the simplicity. Ranging from the dashboard to the addons everything is done smoothly and in a proper manner.

The pricing is very fair and the free tier allows many to explore it's possibilities.

Cons: The dashboard could expand a bit more, also the ping are quite inconsistent. I have tested them together with other services and datadog throws more false negatives than other tools.

Very good experience

Feb 21, 2018

Joaquín E.

Ingeniero en sistemas

Used the software for: 2+ years

Reviewer Source

Source: Capterra

5/5

Overall

4
/
5

Ease of Use

4
/
5

Features & Functionality

5
/
5

Customer Support

4
/
5

Value for Money

Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely

Pros: The dashboards are very clear, it helps us to look for errors in our apis easily. Apart from that, it is great that you can create custom dashboards

Cons: Somethings, when you have a lot of apps is very difficult to find the dashboard that you really want.

Datadog is the perfect choice to monitor the performance of a cloud-based application

Oct 13, 2017

Kumara G.

Sr MTS

Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

Used the software for: 2+ years

Reviewer Source

Source: Capterra

4/5

Overall

5
/
5

Ease of Use

4
/
5

Features & Functionality

4
/
5

Customer Support

4
/
5

Value for Money

Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely

Pros: t integrates so well with Amazon Web Services and all sorts of software, it's very easy to set up and get started quickly I had Datadog monitoring everything in the infrastructure. Datadog's Windows support is great, the Windows agent supports detailed IIS and MSSQL statistics

Cons: Metric types take time to understand

Sometimes it is very difficult to understand the graph report and it is bit technical to use

The various metric types require a little bit of reading and understanding. You'll need to choose the appropriate type when submitting data, or else it'll be tough to make sense of it later.

Using for monitoring multiple servers health

Mar 09, 2018

Daniel P.

Innovation and product developer

Used the software for: 6-12 months

Reviewer Source

Source: Capterra

5/5

Overall

4
/
5

Ease of Use

5
/
5

Features & Functionality

4
/
5

Customer Support

5
/
5

Value for Money

Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely

Pros: The implementation is easy.

Let you know in real time if your server is down or is failing.

The best tool I found.

It's always sending mails when the server fails in any way.

Cons: Should have mobile app or mobile notifications.

If you are not in the programming field you should get someone. The code is easy to implement but if you don't know the right place to call at the right function (assuming you have datadog code on a lib of your system) you wont get the data you need or in the way you need it.

Overall: Let me know every time when my server is down. Great monitoring tool.

Easy to get going and sorted and set up. Consistent and reliable software package

Mar 08, 2018

Tracey M.

Professional Freelancer

Used the software for: 1-2 years

Reviewer Source

Source: Capterra

5/5

Overall

4
/
5

Ease of Use

4
/
5

Features & Functionality

5
/
5

Customer Support

5
/
5

Value for Money

Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely

Pros: At the initial install of the trial I loved it. Its all we required in an app of this nature with a sys monitoring system and an API. Made life a lot simpler for the business needing this software I was advising. They are very happy with it and continue to use it now.

Cons: No real cons that spring to mind. A great product. I would recommend starting with a list of what you need from software, then what you would like then a nice to have list. See how many ticks this software gets. Compare it to at least two pieces of other software of the same nature before making your final decision. This is what I recommend for any piece of software. Also, check out their own forms of customer support, and social media sites to see what other customers have had to say about the software.

Essential tool for infrastructure and application monitoring

Feb 07, 2018

Filip T.

Software Engineer

Used the software for: 1-2 years

Reviewer Source

Source: Capterra

5/5

Overall

4
/
5

Ease of Use

5
/
5

Features & Functionality

5
/
5

Customer Support

5
/
5

Value for Money

Pros: Datadog is one of my favorite tools in every day work.

Some of my favorites include:

- great API,

- very flexible and informative dashboards,

- great integrations with various providers and application, which greatly improve visibility,

- a lot of libraries (eg. ruby-kafka) which integrate with Datadog,

- easy to deploy in numerous ways, ie. Kubernetes, ECS, Ansible.

An excellent monitoring service packed with features at a very affordable price

Feb 08, 2018

Verified Reviewer

1001-5000 employees

Used the software for: 2+ years

Reviewer Source

Source: Capterra

5/5

Overall

5
/
5

Ease of Use

5
/
5

Features & Functionality

5
/
5

Customer Support

5
/
5

Value for Money

Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely

Pros: The integration is fantastic, allowing me to see what's going on at a high level. It's extremely nice to be able to tap into their API from anywhere & install their agent on any server. Along with all that one great feature is to prevent unexpected bills from pulling too many instances, saving me a ton of money.

Cons: Moving graphs can be difficult due to space when you try to move them horizontally but vertically is fine. Pulling in graphs, while simple, can still be difficult to use when resizing & color coordinating, but it's minor.

Best tool for monitoring

Feb 07, 2018

Nidhi J.

Sr Software Engineer

Used the software for: 1-2 years

Reviewer Source

Source: Capterra

4/5

Overall

4
/
5

Ease of Use

3
/
5

Features & Functionality

4
/
5

Customer Support

4
/
5

Value for Money

Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely

Pros: Along with monitoring , it provides great alerting. It can easily be integrated with slack or Pagerduty. Gives detailed log of events. Provides easily understandable graphs .

Cons: It takes little time to understand how to set up things with datadog. It's not every intuitive. It takes a bit of understanding to be able to configure the alerts.

I very useful app to get realtime metrics

Jan 12, 2018

Verified Reviewer

Internet, 1001-5000 employees

Used the software for: 1-2 years

Reviewer Source

Source: Capterra

4/5

Overall

3
/
5

Ease of Use

4
/
5

Features & Functionality

5
/
5

Customer Support

4
/
5

Value for Money

Pros: - very simple to send metrics

- great dashboards to display info

- easier to create monitors

- we can summarize al monitors and composite too

- Simple to integrate with other apps

Cons: - Not have rate limiter to control some bad metrics

- Not have a mobile app, in some case can be faster to get some alerts

One of the great tool to maintain your infra

Jan 14, 2019

Gaurav Y.

Software Developer

Computer Software, 51-200 employees

Used the software for: 1-2 years

Reviewer Source

Source: Capterra

5/5

Overall

4
/
5

Ease of Use

5
/
5

Features & Functionality

5
/
5

Customer Support

5
/
5

Value for Money

Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely

Pros: Datadog is very good for monitoring the applications and the host infrastructure. We have used it for lots of purpose for maintaining the infra like maintaining the kafka servers where we can plug this and can easily see the performance of kafka, it's offset value for different different consumers and lot more. Apart from this, we can also see the application performance with this.

Cons: Only one negative to say, it is difficult to start with this, writing the query to fetch the details and to do analysis is not easy. You need to learn it.

Overall: have made our infra management easy.

Great tool for SaaS Monitoring

Apr 13, 2018

Derrick L.

Application Consultant

Used the software for: 6-12 months

Reviewer Source

Source: Capterra

5/5

Overall

4
/
5

Ease of Use

4
/
5

Features & Functionality

3
/
5

Customer Support

4
/
5

Value for Money

Pros: Reliable, easy to integrate, supports all important types of monitors and events, fast UI. You can easily setup your dashboard for important metrics.

Cons: Learning Curve is a high. Overwhelming amount of information to search through in order to start using the product.

Great title for monitoring tool

Sep 14, 2018

Verified Reviewer

Information Technology and Services, 501-1000 employees

Used the software for: Less than 6 months

Reviewer Source

Source: GetApp

5/5

Overall

5
/
5

Ease of Use

5
/
5

Features & Functionality

Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely

Pros: First of all I like the Name of this software and its Logo! So cute! Besides that this is a great monitoring tool. It is cloud based solution, it keeps present and historical data, so you can analyze if there are some problems or logs in your system and then fix them. Datadog integrates very well into other systems.

Cons: You must be a bit experienced user to install and configurate this software. It is not so easy to build your own solutions if you need. You have to contact customer support too often during first steps, aithough contact center is good and helpful.

Monitoring Made Simple

Jul 23, 2014

Eric B.

CTO

Internet, 11-50 employees

Source: GetApp

5/5

Overall

Comments: After setting up Datadog, the value was immediately apparent. The instrumentation provided out of the box changed hours of troubleshooting to find the source of a problem in to minutes. While it used to take days or weeks to set up instrumentation, Datadog provides tools that make setup and installation simple. We use Chef at SimpleReach and in about 10 minutes, I had Datadog monitoring everything in the infrastructure. Spent a few minutes creating alerts for application metrics and turned what used to be a few weeks of work into a few hours. Coming from a systems administration background, I can't say enough good things about Datadog.

Pros: Easy setup. Wide range of integrations with common applications. Easy to create custom graphs and metrics on the fly.

Cons: If you don't already have your applications instrumented with statsd, then it can a little catching up. Also, their default set of metrics limits you to 100 metrics per server (which can be changed easily).

Datadog is the perfect choice to monitor about the performance of a cloud based application

Oct 13, 2017

ramesh k.

Software Developer

Computer Software, 51-200 employees

Used the software for: 2+ years

Reviewer Source

Source: Capterra

4/5

Overall

4
/
5

Ease of Use

4
/
5

Features & Functionality

4
/
5

Customer Support

4
/
5

Value for Money

Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely

Pros: 1. The metrics for RDS CPU monitoring is very useful

2. Easy to check the graph during sometime with Show option

Cons: 1. Metric types takes time to understand

2. Sometimes it is very difficult to understand the graph report and it is bit technical to use

Powerful monitoring and analytics platform

Nov 13, 2018

Verified Reviewer

Automotive, 51-200 employees

Used the software for: 1-2 years

Reviewer Source

Source: Capterra

4/5

Overall

5
/
5

Ease of Use

4
/
5

Features & Functionality

3
/
5

Customer Support

3
/
5

Value for Money

Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely

Pros: There are lots of integrations especially for AWS product but also with the server agent you can get insights to metrics from the whole stack. Also the custom metric reporting is very easy to do with their SDK.

Cons: The cost can become a cause for concern if you are not careful with what data you send to Datadog. However there are lots of tools to keep an eye it.

Fantastic for Monitoring

Sep 04, 2015

Christian R.

Information Technology and Services

Used the software for: 1-2 years

Source: GetApp

5/5

Overall

5
/
5

Ease of Use

5
/
5

Customer Support

5
/
5

Value for Money

Comments: Datadog has been very helpful when we get a lot of traffic. We get a global glance of our infrastructure's health from a few dashboard and detailed information about specific aspect when needed. It integrates so well with Amazon Web Services and all sorts of software, it's very easy to set up and get started quickly. Whenever I have a question, the customer service is fast and knowledgeable. I recommend Datadog for any type of business or organizations.

Pros: Customer Service, Integration, Easy to use, Easy to configure

Perfect for large scale monitoring

Mar 20, 2018

Verified Reviewer

Financial Services, 1001-5000 employees

Used the software for: 1-2 years

Reviewer Source

Source: GetApp

4/5

Overall

3
/
5

Ease of Use

4
/
5

Features & Functionality

5
/
5

Customer Support

4
/
5

Value for Money

Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely

Pros: Perfect for keeping an eye out on third party apps. We save a lot of time by having a central dashboard and look at the stats to better understand problem areas and where we are loosing efficiency

Cons: The only issue we had was users getting used to the DataDog. You need some background to get the most out of the product.

Impressive software monitoring and analytics tool

Oct 01, 2018

allan t.

Consultant senior en technologie de l'information

Information Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees

Used the software for: Less than 6 months

Reviewer Source

Source: GetApp

5/5

Overall

5
/
5

Ease of Use

5
/
5

Features & Functionality

4
/
5

Customer Support

4
/
5

Value for Money

Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely

Pros: Datadog is a cloud solution to monitor your services, it s really East to setup, just install a local agent or deploy it with automated scripts. You can get a map, service by service of your performance latencies... no need to manage datadog server because it is offered in SaaS.

Cons: You have to setup agent on windows server.
Sometimes it s not possible to Connect some server to the cloud.
Price for bit datacenter can be high, but other solution won t be cheaper

DataDog - App and System Monitoring

Mar 03, 2016

Sky L.

Senior DevOps Engineer

Retail, 1001-5000 employees

Used the software for: 6-12 months

Source: GetApp

5/5

Overall

5
/
5

Ease of Use

5
/
5

Customer Support

5
/
5

Value for Money

Comments: We recently flipped from using an older SNMP based monitoring system and couldn't be happier. From the initial install during our trial I was smitten. It was everything I would want in an application and system monitoring system all wrapped up in a beautiful API.

Pros: Easy... seriously dummy proof.
Robust - So many integration's and easy write your own plugins.
Solid API with great documentation.
It's StatsD and Graphite, at the push of a button.

Cons: Somewhat expensive.
Doesn't have an integration with every single application? I actually have to do some work...
That's all I can think of....

It's amazing

Dec 16, 2015

Milan S.

Backend Developer

Financial Services, 11-50 employees

Used the software for: 6-12 months

Source: GetApp

5/5

Overall

5
/
5

Ease of Use

5
/
5

Customer Support

5
/
5

Value for Money

Comments: We're using Datadog to monitor our many servers and various types of services, which has always been a hassle. Datadog allows us to quickly see health of our entire system, quick and reliant alerts for our custom criteria which target only the people in the team that need to see and react accordingly. It's been a breeze to setup and tweak.

Cons: No significant cons, though I'd like to be able to monitor RDS health without integrating to the entire AWS.

Data Eat Data World

May 07, 2019

Christopher Kyle D.

QA Engineer

Information Technology and Services, 201-500 employees

Used the software for: Less than 6 months

Reviewer Source

Source: Capterra

4/5

Overall

3
/
5

Ease of Use

5
/
5

Features & Functionality

5
/
5

Customer Support

5
/
5

Value for Money

Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely

Pros: -Customization for integrating software

-Extreme level of analytical tracking

-Alerts regarding errors

-Excellent customer support

Cons: -Large learning curve

-More documentation needed

Overall: Datadog Cloud Monitoring is relatively new to my team, we've been using it with much enjoyment. It's great how on top of things it is, allowing you a means to look deeper into errors that occur and trace the source of the issue.

Great monitoring tool

Jan 08, 2019

mohamed a.

L3 Support Engineer and Service Management

Telecommunications, 10,001+ employees

Used the software for: 6-12 months

Reviewer Source

Source: GetApp

5/5

Overall

5
/
5

Ease of Use

4
/
5

Features & Functionality

4
/
5

Customer Support

5
/
5

Value for Money

Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely

Pros: - great tool for monitoring, and it support wide range of monitoring like infrastructure monitoring, cloud based monitoring, application monitoring and business service monitoring
- Support wide range of integrations like the integration with HPE OMi

Cons: It's a great application for monitoring cloud based applications, the support takes sometime to resolve the reported issues

Datadog is easy to use and is very powerful. Used in a variety of ways to track metrics across apps.

Aug 08, 2017

Kyle C.

Co-founder

Used the software for: 2+ years

Reviewer Source

Source: Capterra

5/5

Overall

5
/
5

Ease of Use

5
/
5

Features & Functionality

5
/
5

Customer Support

5
/
5

Value for Money

Pros: Trending, visualizing, and alerting on metrics is dead-simple. Getting data in is easy. Great not just for server metrics, but even custom application and business metrics.

Cons: The various metric types require a little bit of reading and understanding. You'll need to choose the appropriate type when submitting data, or else it'll be tough to make sense of it later.

DataDog is terrific monitoring software

Jul 10, 2018

Mike H.

Lead Backend Engineer

Computer Software, 11-50 employees

Used the software for: Less than 6 months

Reviewer Source

Source: Capterra

4/5

Overall

5
/
5

Ease of Use

4
/
5

Features & Functionality

4
/
5

Customer Support

3
/
5

Value for Money

Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely

Pros: DataDog is easy to implement and start reading data from your applications and servers. Their UI is beautiful. The ability to share graphs is also very nice.

Cons: DataDog can be pricey for a start up and I recommend using a trial and revisiting later when your product is established.

Datadog: Best event monitoring tool in the Market.

Feb 27, 2018

Rahul S.

Software Developer

11-50 employees

Used the software for: Less than 6 months

Reviewer Source

Source: Capterra

5/5

Overall

5
/
5

Ease of Use

5
/
5

Features & Functionality

5
/
5

Customer Support

5
/
5

Value for Money

Pros: Easy to use.

Very customizable dashboards.

Provides excellent customer support.

Integrate a variety of third-party applications.

Cons: Datadog is kind of costly for small-scale or midscale companies.

Datadog should integrate more tools.

Does not provide mobile alerts.

Used to monitor Elastic Search

Nov 14, 2017

Verified Reviewer

Computer Software

Used the software for: 6-12 months

Reviewer Source

Source: Capterra

4/5

Overall

5
/
5

Ease of Use

4
/
5

Features & Functionality

4
/
5

Customer Support

5
/
5

Value for Money

Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely

Pros: Easy of configuration, they have an agent app and sample configuration which get you started in about 20 minutes

Cons: Free tier is top limited, would have loved to get the service for free for monitoring 10 machines cluster

Overall: Were able to get alerts when anything went wrong with the cludter

Datagod is one of the best for IT monitoring

Apr 12, 2018

Verified Reviewer

Used the software for: 6-12 months

Reviewer Source

Source: Capterra

5/5

Overall

4
/
5

Ease of Use

5
/
5

Features & Functionality

4
/
5

Value for Money

Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely

Pros: Datadog is easy to use, you can have custom and multiple dashboard, what is nice to control your environment/network.

Great notifications.

Cons: Could have a mobile app so we can have mobile notifications, It could be hard to integration with others tools.

Graet tool for monitoring cloud and on-premise workloads

Dec 04, 2017

Verified Reviewer

Used the software for: Less than 6 months

Reviewer Source

Source: Capterra

5/5

Overall

5
/
5

Ease of Use

5
/
5

Features & Functionality

5
/
5

Customer Support

5
/
5

Value for Money

Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely

Pros: We can monitor almost everything using datadogm it has a lot of pre-configured solutions for different kinkds of workloads

Cons: Not very straightforward integration with ticketing systems. We had to read a lot of documentation to find appropriate solution

Datadog is what you need if you share everything you saw

Mar 02, 2018

Lisandra F.

Analista

Telecommunications, 10,001+ employees

Review is based on a free trial

Reviewer Source

Source: GetApp

5/5

Overall

5
/
5

Ease of Use

5
/
5

Features & Functionality

5
/
5

Customer Support

4
/
5

Value for Money

Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely

Pros: Datadog is a service for IT monitoring, operations and team development that write and execute applications at scale and want to convert the enormous amounts of data generated by their applications, tools and services into practical knowledge. In my own experience I can say that very useful and efficient. Its interface is very friendly, so anyone can use it.

Woof Woof...The dog in the cloud

Nov 27, 2018

Verified Reviewer

Computer Software, 201-500 employees

Used the software for: 2+ years

Reviewer Source

Source: Capterra

4/5

Overall

4
/
5

Ease of Use

4
/
5

Features & Functionality

2
/
5

Value for Money

Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely

Pros: Its a great product for single pain of glass of IT Cloud monitoring with some nice integrations and visualization

Cons: The cost of the product is a little higher then desired and would be good to lower it to attract more clients.

It looks very sleek but default integrations won't show you much, so a lot of customization needed.

Sep 21, 2017

Dmitry K.

Senior Software Engineer

Computer Software, 51-200 employees

Used the software for: 6-12 months

Reviewer Source

Source: Capterra

3/5

Overall

4
/
5

Ease of Use

2
/
5

Features & Functionality

3
/
5

Customer Support

2
/
5

Value for Money

Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely

Pros: I liked it very much. So nice to have that event stream and subscriptions. And it's very easy to share your findings with colleagues.

Cons: Default setup is just empty.

These plugins they list as available will give you only so very basic info, that it's totally worthless.

We had to write our own plugins for each and every service and part of our system.

And the support team ignored my questions regarding future improvements in Kubernetes plugin.

Overall: It allowed us to jumpstart our monitoring.

But in the end we had to switch to a different SaaS provider, even though it costs little bit more, and it's not so well known and widely marketized.

Very good monitoring support with some cavaets

Apr 06, 2019

Verified Reviewer

Telecommunications, 1001-5000 employees

Used the software for: Less than 6 months

Reviewer Source

Source: Capterra

4/5

Overall

3
/
5

Ease of Use

4
/
5

Features & Functionality

2
/
5

Value for Money

Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely

Pros: Rich set of filters and plenty of graphs possible. You are only limited by your imagination. You think of some use case and Datadog mostly has it or you may get it in the very near future.

Cons: Though super feature rich, not a very easy to learn. You need to get some tutorials otherwise you may miss a lot of important features. Plus I find the time range filters are little too strict, they should be more flexible IMO.

Overall: I haven't explored any other products, so for now, this serves our purpose. I don't have anything to compare this with.

A vital part of our infrastructure

Feb 13, 2017

Filip T.

Source: Capterra

5/5

Overall

4
/
5

Ease of Use

4
/
5

Features & Functionality

5
/
5

Value for Money

Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely

Pros: Easy setup, numerous integrations, "just works".

Cons: Not very mobile friendly, some learning curve.

Overall: Datadog brings a whole new level to visibility of our infrastructure. It definitely has a learning curve but it's definitely worth it. Our incident response has become much less of a hassle.

Tried AWS, Kafka, Cassandra, Zookeeper and Docker integrations - all are great starting points for building something custom.

80 out of 100

Jan 16, 2017

Matthew K.

Infrastructure Technician II

Internet, 201-500 employees

Used the software for: Less than 6 months

Source: Capterra

4/5

Overall

3
/
5

Ease of Use

4
/
5

Features & Functionality

5
/
5

Customer Support

4
/
5

Value for Money

Pros: The AWS monitoring is top notch

Cons: Azure monitoring needs to play some catch-up, this is a monitoring platform made for a developer IMHO.

Overall: Data dogs is a great application for very specific uses - To me it feels like it was made to monitor AWS and AWS only not Azure. But it actually can monitor Azure and docker and chef as well but I still feel like Azure was an afterthought.

Recommendations to other buyers: I feel . . . this is built for a backend developer to monitor the smallest little things, for Windows Server monitoring I would push you toward LogicMonitor which is what I ended up choosing!

I use this tool for create custom dashboards.

Feb 21, 2018

Nadia G.

Bussiness Assurance

Computer Software, 201-500 employees

Used the software for: 1-2 years

Reviewer Source

Source: Capterra

4/5

Overall

4
/
5

Ease of Use

4
/
5

Features & Functionality

4
/
5

Customer Support

3
/
5

Value for Money

Likelihood to Recommend:Not LikelyExtremely Likely

Pros: - Tool is easy to use.

- Features are very useful.

- Excellent summary monitors.

- Very good customization to UI.

- Very flexible and informative dashboards.

Cons: - Expensive.

- Filtered tags is very Slow.

- The integration with another tools is difficult.

Get DataDog

Jul 08, 2014

Doug D.

CTO

Computer Software, 1-10 employees

Source: GetApp

5/5

Overall

Comments: We've been customers of DataDog for over two years. In short, they're fantastic and I recommend them to everyone.
You can setup monitoring on your servers in 5 minutes, and integration with your app via statsd is simple too. We use both the screenboards and dashboards to see what's going on across our servers and apps in realtime, with alerts set for thresholds we want to monitor.
Highly recommended.

Beautiful Monitoring tools for servers. You can monitor the health instantly and just right way.

Feb 20, 2018

Ayush C.

Student

Used the software for: 1-2 years

Reviewer Source

Source: Capterra

5/5

Overall

4
/
5

Ease of Use

5
/
5

Features & Functionality

3
/
5

Customer Support

3
/
5

Value for Money

Pros: 1. Very good graphical interface.

2. Easy to use. very good customization to UI.

3. Very good hardware support , even bare metal servers

Cons: 1. A bit expensive for small teams.

2. Could integrate more tools like Kibana and graffana to make it more robust .

Excellent product and excellent customer support

Oct 27, 2015

Faisal S.

Information Technology and Services

Used the software for: Less than 6 months

Source: GetApp

5/5

Overall

5
/
5

Ease of Use

5
/
5

Customer Support

4
/
5

Value for Money

Comments: Datadog takes away a lot of overhead in maintaining monitoring infrastructure. This allows us to focus resources on our core services. It was quick to trial and proved useful during our load tests and performance tuning excercise.

Pros: Fantastically easy to setup and install. Works well with automation tools like Ansible to get it installed on a fleet of servers. Customer support is second to none!